Get Yourself Free

A new app called “Freedom” locks you out of captioned cat pictures and pointless babble (yes, the entire Internet) for a specified period of time.

The newspaper industry is lobbying hard to make the effect permanent and have the software installed by default on all new personal computers.*

(via Zoomdoggle)

* Completely false.

October 29, 2009 | Filed Under General, Just For Fun | 1 Comment

2009 in Popular Searches

Google’s type-ahead search suggestions often provide interesting insight into what the world wants to know. Recently I was curious about the most commonly researched definitions on Google, and realized that what I discovered resembled a twisted snapshot of the year in review. I submit the following:

October 23, 2009 | Filed Under Insights, Just For Fun | Leave a Comment

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- GOD’s Kingdom and the Coming Immersive Web: [...] is bringing together the digital realm with: television (now all digital), mobile devices, gaming consoles,
- Tracy Pell: Jamie, Keep checking our twitter feeds and site, we will have the complete narrative (with even more
- Sydney Rubin: Great recap, thanks! But don't forget to mention that your presentation was one of the highlights
- Elisheba Muturi: Jamie, Thank you so much for these wonderful reflections. I totally understand having all these note
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